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Jane Austen: Writer in the World
Kathryn Sutherland
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Description for Jane Austen: Writer in the World
Hardcover. This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters and the portraits made of her during her life all feature in this lavishly illustrated collection. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Num Pages: 224 pages, 90 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBD; DSBF; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 237. .
This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters, the homemade booklets in which she composed her novels and the portraits made of her during her life all feature in this lavishly illustrated collection. By interpreting the outrageous literary jokes in her early notebooks we can glimpse the shared reading activities of Jane and her family, together with the love of satire and home entertainment which can be traced in the ... Read more
This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters, the homemade booklets in which she composed her novels and the portraits made of her during her life all feature in this lavishly illustrated collection. By interpreting the outrageous literary jokes in her early notebooks we can glimpse the shared reading activities of Jane and her family, together with the love of satire and home entertainment which can be traced in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851244638
SKU
V9781851244638
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Ref
99-50
About Kathryn Sutherland
Kathryn Sutherland is Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford.
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